Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-05-06

4SSt&Ns 1A@SA II 4SSOAss4ksh l1yO
lAlicess iace, whiich u IS vet with tears..|
Child aid the INV 81 tt il not.
your tault-it isSnot your fault. IL i
did not know that tho eathy and the
lovely shrink from the cold lips Of the,
dying. 4 would ask you to come near
and let me kiss yo1 g ! !,
Now Alice was bending over the
sufferer couch, her lovely face like.
an illuminated passage from some
old book OF devo tions, and her hot
tears streaming down on those white
withered hands which clasped her
own. s.sf .5s. SSf* IA
Ah, you are very beautiful, and
once he thought me beautiful; but now
| am dying-I shall die before autumn,
and he will be glad. Icame to West
mouth when the doctors said 1 must
not be moved, because ! wished to see
vou-I wished to save you. Philip
Yewburton!--I will not upbraid him
he was to be my husband, We were to
have been married SIX months ago,
and now / shall soon be dead; but l
tell you as the last kindness which
God has given me toshow to any one,
that Philip Yewburton does not love
you. He loves your beauty, and
you and your beauty, let soph-
lists say what they like, are not one
and the same. Your beauty might
pass away in a year; mine did. "Look
at me, ~ said the anguished wo-
man, turning her married features to
the transparent, health-stamped
beautyof Alice's sweet face, sweet even
in it's excess ofsorrow. ''Your beauty
might pass away in a year, but you
would remain. You-no other-with
thesame heart and the same memory;
and Philip Yewburton would turn
away and tell you with the kindest
voice that everything should be done
for you that money could do; you
should have everything that money
could buy; but nothing sweeter would
you have from him"
"Mabel-Mabel." cried her sister,
coming and kneeling down beside my
poor distracted Alice, ''you will kill
the child"
"No, no." broke somewhat petu-
lantly from those pallid, feeble lips.
''This little shock will be forgotten,
and she will be stronger for it after
ward and more beautiful even than
she is. Goodbye. No, do not kiss
me' (but she did, IF you come
again-and should like you to come
again-bring your violin. I love the
violin, and ah! how he can play it!
It was his violin that won my heart.
You need not fear to come again if
send for you. Philip Yewburton.
when he knows l am here will come to
me at once. He will chide me for
travelling he will bring me heaps OF
flowers. He will tell me I may yet
get better, and I shall smile, we'll
knowing that shall soon be better,
much better, in heaven. Then he will
go away again, and you may come;
will your
eyes," sobbed Alice, Il will come
every day."
Poor child!
A silencef followed. The dying wom-
ans sister put her arm round Alice
and drew her away while the invisi-
bic angels, if indeed there are invisi-
BILE angels, mutely blessed them
those two angels that were not invis.
ible. All, reader that was two years
ago; they are very different now
very different they were when I last
saw them smiling, chatting. and
laughing together, more beautiful, but
very different, for they both are
mothers.
And Philip Yewburton? I do not
know. never ask. I see and hear
sad things enough without going out
OF my way to seek them.